Its rubbish only if you fly from the UK with its riddiculous taxes. Its better value when you fly out of other international airports where the taxes are reasonable. Best to book a one way with cash with any airlines and then use the miles to fly other international routes. Remember you can use the miles on star alliance flights.

5 years, 3 months ago

OUCH BMI Ouch,stay clear...rubbish poor service.

5 years, 3 months ago

Be warned... trying to get the flight you want on the date you want using your BMI Airmiles is very difficult in my experience.

i had e-mail from bmi offering 20.000 miles points if i apply for bmi american express card and spend £250 in 90 days. this would qualify for 20k miles which is according to e-mail is enough for 2 ret…

think you get 20k miles so you could fly that amount of miles anywhere BMI goes..
that includes moscow.
details were given in e-mail i received. unfortunetly i have deleted all jubk mails..

IIRC Economy is 12,000 to Moscow btw. Might have a look into this.....

BMI Diamond Club often have incentives to join - think it's 1,000 at the mo, was 3,000 a while back.

7 years, 4 months ago

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WHERES THE INFO ON MOSCOW OR AMSTERDAM
CANT FIND IT
ANY OTHER DESTINATIONS ETC.

sorry for caps

think you get 20k miles so you could fly that amount of miles anywhere BMI goes..
that includes moscow.
details were given in e-mail i received. unfortunetly i have deleted all jubk mails..

7 years, 5 months ago

Moved to deals.

7 years, 5 months ago

WHERES THE INFO ON MOSCOW OR AMSTERDAM
CANT FIND IT
ANY OTHER DESTINATIONS ETC.

sorry for caps

7 years, 5 months ago

*Offer available to UK applicants, who make their first card purchase using the bmi credit card within 90 days of the account opening date. Destinations miles is the currency used in Diamond Club, bmi's frequent flyer programme. Your Diamond Club account will be opened automatically when your credit card account is opened. For flight redemption, any taxes, fees and charges must be paid for in pounds sterling at the time of booking. These will vary according to the qualifying destination, and are subject to change as a result of fluctuations in taxes, airport levies and exchange rates. A minimum of £250 in total must be spent on card purchases within 90 days of the account being opened in order to qualify for the 20,000 destinations miles. 20,000 destinations miles will be credited to your Diamond Club account up to 56 days after you make your £250 qualifying spend with your card. This offer is only available once per customer. If you have received bonus miles for any bmi credit card previously you will not receive a second bonus miles award. Full terms and conditions are available on website: flybmi.com/creditcard

Join bmi (British Midland) Diamond club and recieve a free one off lounge access voucher which will give you access to the bmi lounges in Belfast City, Brussels, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, He…

This has now expired and has been replaced by a joining bonus of 1,000 points.

Gutted :(

7 years, 6 months ago

As stated in OP, voucher must be used by 31/08/09 but can be used in the lounges stated in the OP.

Ive provided a direct link to the t&c but here's a copy and paste:

- This promotion is only valid for new members joining Diamond Club.
- Only one enrolment per individual will be accepted for membership of the Diamond Club programme
- Any duplicate Diamond Club accounts will be closed and promotional miles deleted
- The free lounge pass entitles one bmi passenger one time entry to a bmi lounge before 31 August 2009
- The free lounge pass can be used to enter lounges in Belfast City, Brussels, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Heathrow Terminal 1 and Manchester Terminal 3 The free lounge pass will be posted within 28 days of joining Diamond Club
- The voucher must be surrendered to the lounge co-ordinator on duty upon arrival at the lounge.
- Use of bmi lounges is subject to the terms for use of lounges in force from time to time
- The voucher is non transferable
- No cash alternative will be offered
- Standard Diamond Club terms and conditions apply.

7 years, 6 months ago

I was under the impression that it was only heathrow lounge access and that it must be used before 31st Aug 09

Its probably because there is a lot of text squashed together in the first post which doesnt make it easy to read and a lot of people dont read! If you click on the link you'll get the text all nice and formatted on their site :) :whistling:

7 years, 7 months ago

Why the cold police are out in force tonight
Looks like a good deal to me
Heat n Rep added

To ease your return to work blues, we're welcoming you back with our fantastic better for business sale. Choose from our huge selection of destinations from Beirut to Brussels, for travel up to 31 Oct…

NO! DON`T DO IT!!!!
Did this 6 months or so ago. I got the "free" flight. Ok, you have to pay the airport taxes, fuel surcharge, baggage, card fee`s etc. But the biggest problem is the choice of flights. True, you can go anywhere anytime on the network......BUT..... only valid on a flight which is available AT THE LOWEST RATE.
To make it clear, only those flights which are advertised FROM £x.xx are included in the offer.
Any the citi card isn`t much good either in terms of rates etc.
Sorry, but first hand experience tells me VERY cold.

8 years, 5 months ago

It's worth reading the T&Cs. In particular, bear in mind that you will have to pay taxes etc so I don't imagine that these flights are as free as one would like.

8 years, 5 months ago

Nice one, shame I cant bare the thought of having loads of CR cards! Voted Hot

sometimes flight times may be more important and airport, to price so well worth plenty of surfing. ryanair can fly to more small hangers than decent airports!. handy if you live near airports for vfr trips etc. happy flying y'all. may suit loyalty cards/lounges too.found bmi good when kids are aboard too.

8 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for the post.
Their prices are generally way more expensive than ryanair though. A return flight from ema - alicante in july is over £50 more expensive per person with bmi-baby than ryanair on the date i checked.

So check ryanair's price before booking ( if they cover the same route).

Heathrow was the only one that interested me too, so no bargains for me here!

8 years, 8 months ago

We might be getting older, but our prices are looking younger by the minute! For our 6th birthday, we’ve made a wish that our flights start from £6 one way incl. taxes and charges. That’s prices from only £6 one way incl. taxes and charges to every UK and Irish city when you travel from 01 June until 31 July 2008.

So celebrate with us and pack your bags for a short break to a UK city. You can fly from Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands or Manchester to Aberdeen, Belfast Intl, Edinburgh, Glasgow Intl, Jersey, Ireland West Knock, Newquay or Cork from only from £6 one way incl. taxes and charges. So you don’t have to hold your breath anymore, just blow out the candles and book your flights today! Hurry, offer ends midnight Thursday 27th March 08.

I usually use the advanced option of [url]www.weefly.com[/url]
for finding these deals.

8 years, 9 months ago

That was a sorry excuse of an offer! :)

8 years, 9 months ago

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I can get the cheap flights from B'ham to Knock, but with taxes it's £36 plus baggage.

8 years, 9 months ago

Unfortunately buying an apartment in Spain doesn't give you a legal right to get cheap flights there for ever more, especially considering the amount of greenhouse gas you are emitting by doing so.

8 years, 9 months ago

quoted me 200 each mcr to malaga .i have never found a cheap flight with these so called low budget operators unless you book months in advance !! and we have appartment in malaga so regular flyers,as usual school holidays have these ripp off merchants tribbling as they double the price ,not sure whether they pay employees double at these times or whether the airport charges and fuel charges are doubled but i think extremley unlikely, about time goverment looked into the sky high charges when kids off school especially now you get fined for taking kids out of school during term time!!

This is no April fools joke. All flights from Birmingham Intl, Cardiff, Cork, East Midlands, Ireland West Knock and Manchester to the UK and Eire are priced at a tiny £18.99 one way incl. taxes and ch…